My update is stuck on “verifying.” What should I do?

Same with me. iOS is the latest, restarted both phone and watch, both connected to the electrical power, watch has 60% of its space free and its battery at 90%, but no improvement, the update is stuck at the preparation phase. Any ideas?

PS if I remember correctly some problem happened at the previous update and the solution was to shut down the watch (but now this does not work)

I contacted apple support and they didn’t hear about this problem. He took my phone over but nothing changed. So he created a ticket and I told him that we all have the same problem and that the problem with the battery is the worst! In 3 to 4 hours I need to charge it. Also at night I never had to charge it but over night my watch battery is dead …. It is frustrating!

so best way to connect with apple support!

The problem persists. I restarted both the phone and the watch, same problem, stuck at preparation phase. I also deleted the downloaded file update and tried to update directly from the watch, same problem. Now I erased again the update file and stopped the automatic updates, waiting Apple to fix the problem by a new software update.

Happening the same to me while trying to update to 10.4... forever verifying. Apple Watch 9, iPhone 14 iOS up to date. Tried restarting both, erasing the update, disabling automatic update... doesn't work. :(

None of these steps are working. I have tried this multiple times, restarting, resetting etc. Watch and phone both are connected to the charger, both have almost 100% battery and yet the watch is unable to verify update due to internet connection even when Internet is connected on phone. Since this is first setup for the watch, I cant access any setting on the watch. Please help in fixing this.

I had the same problem with 10.4. Any ideas? I’ve restarted the phone several times and nothing. Can I delete the partial ipdate and restart?

I have the same problem as JohnK16? Anyone an idea to solve this issue. I'm trying the solutions for 2 days no with no success :-(

I’m very happy with apple product.

I want to ues the cellular data

I don’t want to restart the phone

Nothing just wanna to use the cellular data

Verifying update

I powered my iPhone 15 off, then restarted it and the software update to my Apple Watch SE installed right away.

I’m wondering the same thing.

Power down you phone, wait a few minutes, then power on. When I did this, the Apple Watch update installed. Leave the watch on its charger, and your phone nearby connected to the internet (WiFi).